Read the First Two Chapters of Chuck Palahniuk’s New Book, Tell-All

The Fight Club author’s new book is, per Publishers Weekly, a “rude sendup of name-dropping and the culture of celebrity worship,” and it starts like this:

Act one, scene one opens with Lillian Hellman clawing her way, stumbling and scrambling, through the thorny night-time underbrush of some German schwarzwald, a Jewish baby clamped to each of her tits, another brood of infants clinging to her back.